a short work break

Mostly I am having a nice, lazy holiday, reading my hosts' books, enjoying walking around some of the interesting bits of Montreal, and eating tasty things. Interesting not in the sense of impressive architecture or historical monuments, just nice bits of park and streets whose proportions feel right. Downtown Bellevue is full of new, tall buildings and traffic patterns optimized for cars and weird for pedestrians. (Lots of Seattle feels more comfortable, in that sense, but I'm not spending a lot of time in Wallingford, and Pioneer Square is rather touristy.)

I warned my freelance client that I would be away for this chunk of time; he sent me something on Thursday with a cover note saying "I know you'll be away until the 16th but figured I might as well send the files now."

At the moment, I am taking a break from the break, and proofreading an OCR'd poetry book, a few pages at a time; it takes a different sort of attention than the work I usually do on prose, in part because with that, the line between proofreading and copyediting is fuzzy. Here, I'm going to say "that should be a hyphen, not an em dash" and "check capitalization," but (for a variety of reasons) I'm not suggesting "this would read better if you changed it."

But rysmiel is awake, and it's time for tea and second breakfast. More poetry later, possibly even before I go back to Bellevue.